Sarthak Phadke

GM, Singapore | Director, Strategy & Operations @ Aspire

About

Hybrid Digital and Fintech / Consumer & Retail leader with 11+ years' experience, currently leading Strategy and Transformation as well as the Singapore Market Unit at Aspire Fintech, a Series-C startup backed by Sequoia/YC/Tencent. Sarthak has previously worked as a Strategy Consulting Principal (Director) with Accenture Singapore; with Disney Star as the Chief of Staff to the President for Strategy & New Businesses and with the Indian FMCG conglomerate ITC Ltd. as Channel Sales & Marketing Lead for Central India. Sarthak holds an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA) and a Bachelors degree in Electrical & Electronics Engineering from BITS Pilani.

Country

City

Singapore

Industry

Management Consulting

Skill

Business Planning, Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG), Agile Project Management, Digital Commerce, Revenue & Profit Growth, Digital Marketing, Business Strategy, Digital Strategy, Sales and Marketing, Strategy, Management Consulting, Fast-Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG)

Experience

GM, Singapore | Director, Strategy & Operations

Aspire

2025-7 - Present · 1 yr 3 mos

Singapore

- Spearheading new GTM / Product bets to unlock growth at scale - Leading SG BU - orchestrating omnichannel strategy and operational excellence across multifunctional teams to drive business KPIs

Director / Senior Manager

Accenture

2019-4 - 2025-7 · 6 yrs 4 mos

Singapore

Part of the Commercial Growth Consulting Practice at Accenture, leading the Growth Advisory offering for clients across APAC as well as practice GTM regionally. In this role, I was responsible for anchoring C-suite conversations as well as consulting delivery excellence for our clients, to enable them to achieve commerce & marketing value growth through innovation, process transformation and agile execution. Select Projects: • Digital Commerce COE Setup & Rollout for a Global Beauty & Personal Care Company in APAC region • End-to-end Commerce (Marketplaces/D2C) Growth Strategy & Execution for a F&B Client in Philippines • Commerce-led Digital Transformation for a Multinational Pharmaceuticals Client in APAC region • Commerce Growth Acceleration for a Global Consumer Healthcare Client in Singapore & Malaysia • Commerce Marketplaces Growth Strategy & Execution for a Health Supplements Company in Malaysia • Social Commerce Market Entry & Route-to-Market Strategy for an Global CPG company in Indonesia • Commerce Market Entry Strategy for a leading Australian Baby Foods brand in China • Digital Value Assessment & Strategy for a British Personal Care Company in Indonesia

Chief of Staff to President - Strategy & New Business

Disney Star

2018-9 - 2019-3 · 7 mos

Mumbai Area, India

Management Consultant

Accenture

2016-10 - 2018-9 · 2 yrs

Mumbai Area, India

Part of Products - Consumer Goods & Services practice. Select Projects: • Digital Commerce Growth Strategy and Execution for an Indian FMCG/ Consumer Healthcare company (Workstream Lead, Media Planning and Execution) • Digital commerce Strategy Roadmap & Capability Development for a Global F&B major in India • CRM Business Process Design and Optimization for an Australasian Beverages and Dairy company (O2C/Ecommerce Workstream Lead)

Assistant Branch Manager - Convenience Channel

ITC Limited

2014-7 - 2016-9 · 2 yrs 3 mos

Madhya Pradesh, India

• Channel Sales Leader for Convenience Channel, Madhya Pradesh, handling a portfolio of 70+ channel partners with a total annual business size of ~$170 Mn • Led distribution and marketing for ITC's FMCG (Tobacco, Foods, Personal Care, Agarbatti & Matches) portfolio across more than 22,000+ convenience stores